TRAFFIC ENGINEER

Company:	City of Mesquite Company Profile \| Current Opportunities (5)
Job Location(s):	Mesquite
Employment Term:	Regular
Employment Type	Full Time
Hours per Week:
Work Hours (i.e. shift):	M-F / 8am-5pm
Start Date:	Immediate
Starting Salary Range:	DOQ
Required Education:	Bachelor's Degree
Required Experience:	4 to 20+ years
Related Categories:	Engineering - General, Engineering - Civil, Government - Local/Federal

Position Description

TRAFFIC ENGINEER

Starting Salary: Salary: DOQ

Closing Date: Open Until Filled

The City of Mesquite Engineering Division is seeking a qualified Traffic Engineer to join our team. The City currently has 105 traffic signals in operation with four new traffic signals planned and seven existing traffic signals scheduled for upgrade. The City is currently in the process of completing the last phase of its nearly $3.5 million traffic signal upgrade and interconnection plan that will create a Traffic Management Center, allowing all of the traffic signals in Mesquite to be operated from a central location.

The Traffic Engineer will be responsible for: managing the City’s Traffic Management Center, traffic signal fiber optic system and traffic signal progression system based on ACTRA Central System software. This position will also perform traffic signal warrant studies, design traffic signals, as well as prepare traffic signal plans, specifications, and estimates. Additional responsibilities of the Traffic Engineer include: performing speed studies and traffic impact analyses, reviewing requests for driveway access and design plans prepared by others for compliance with accepted traffic engineering principles and standards as well as City Code, and providing highly responsible and complex administrative support to the Manager of Traffic Engineering and Street Lighting.

Qualifications:

Bachelor's degree from an accredited college or university with major coursework in traffic or transportation engineering or other closely related field.

Four years of increasingly responsible experience as a registered professional engineer engaged in traffic engineering, efficient signal progession, traffic signal design and operations.

Possession of a valid driver's license.

Possession of an active certificate of registration as a Professional Engineer, with specialization in the field of civil engineering with a focus on transportation, issued by the Texas Board of Registration of Professional Engineers; or possession of similar registration issued by another state, with the condition that the successful applicant obtain an active certificate of registration as a Professional Engineer, issued by the Texas Board of Registration for Professional Engineers within twelve months of employment as a condition of continued employment.

Possession of an active certification as a Professional Traffic Operations Engineer (PTOE) or the ability to obtain certification within two years of the date of hire as a condition of continued employment.

Must be available to work M-F 8am-5pm.